PHOTO - It’s a familiar scene in old cartoons and movies.
A high-rise building is on fire. Firefighters scurry from fire engines to the sidewalk carrying a large canvas-covered net with a bull’s-eye-like red spot in the center. Holding the stretched out net, the firefighters instruct people in the building to jump.
Now, after being stored away for years, one of those nets in Eugene has been restored.
Thirteen Eugene Springfield Fire recruits at the department’s training academy at West Second Avenue and Chambers Street spent their free time during the past six weeks refurbishing an old net — called a Browder life safety net — that once was considered a lifesaving device.
“I was looking (in storage) for something to show the recruits, and I found the dusty, dirty old piece of equipment,” Capt. Wayne Morris said.